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Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. Do you want to use your skills, knowledge and experience to help change the world? You could be our new Activism Events Assistant.

About the role

The Community Organising team’s purpose is to recruit and empower more people in the UK to know, claim and stand up for human rights. It empowers groups, networks, and individuals to have an impact in bringing about positive human rights change, to reach new audiences and to be champions for Amnesty International and its work in and with their communities.

The Activism Events Assistant works closely with the Activism Events Manager to support colleagues and activists to organise successful events that achieve AIUK’s goal to build a powerful, diverse, inclusive human rights movement in the UK. This includes but is not limited to the AIUK National Gathering, conferences and special events.

The Activism Events Assistant is a diverse and pivotal role, providing administrative and project support to the Amnesty International UK Activist Events programme. This role ensures we have excellent administrative and logistical processes that support our events and our aim of enabling more people across the UK to achieve human rights change.

The diversity of the role includes:

Supporting the design, production and delivery of online, hybrid and in person events, training and workshops, including booking venues, entertainment, equipment and supplies.; Managing, developing and maintaining the collection and storage of data; Communicating with a variety of audiences and keeping sources of information up to date; More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.

The role may be for you if:

• You’re skilled in developing and maintaining administrative systems and databases
• You can prioritise your own work across multiple projects
• You have experience of supporting events production and delivery
• You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.

Our Commitment to you

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.

New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro rated for part time). 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares. See more details of our benefits here.

Apply for this role

The vacancy may be closed earlier than advertised if a high standard of applications is received. If you wish to be considered for the role, avoid delay in submitting an application.

We welcome applications from everyone and particularly encourage applications from people from an ethnic minority background, and people with a disability to help us achieve a balanced representation in our workforce, especially at senior grades.

To reduce bias in our shortlisting process, AIUK operates an anonymised application process. If for any reason you prefer to apply in a different format, or require adjustments in the process, please get in touch. We are a disability confident organisation. More details of inclusion in the AIUK recruitment process can be found here.